This list is
incomplete and may well have some errors. Only
vessels taken over by the Admiralty for naval
service or placed in the Fishery Reserve are
included. The many smaller commercial fishing
vessels – sailing trawlers, most steam drifters,
fishing smacks, motor ketches etc. are not.

By
category, there are a total of around 3336
vessels – 1456 hired trawlers, 1492 hired steam
and motor drifters and 388 Fishery Reserve
vessels. This total has not been reconciled with
the 3313 listed by Port of Registration. Most,
if not all of this discrepancy of 23 is
accounted for by hired vessels that were later
transferred to the Fishery Reserve, and others
whose Registration number was changed